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Hi,

I looked for a better place to post this, but found none. Please move it if I have chosen incorrectly.

I should say up front that these are only suggestions and I am unfortunately not in a position to assist in implementing them if indeed you folks thought there was merit in the ideas.

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I'd like to congratulate Kyle on his excellent work on the installer wizard, and raise two suggestions for discussion.

1.) Do you think it might be a good idea to simplify the 'Pre-Installation Check' page by only showing items that are actually "show-stoppers"? Here is a quick mockup showing what I mean. I suggest moving the "Recommended settings" stuff to the final page since they are not show-stoppers. The user doesn't need those issues getting in the way of their install. We just mention it at the end of the process... "Congratulations, Joomla is installed. BTW, we recommend you make these changes for optimal compatibility with Joomla."

Having only the actual problems on the page frees up room to provide actionable steps the user can take to fix the problems.


2.) I'd also like to suggest hiding the 'Pre-Installation Check' page altogether if there are no incompatibilities at all ie. reducing the wizard to 5 steps.


EDIT:
3.) We should probably remove the 'Back to Top' link as well


Thanks for reading.
Mark

Mark,

Yes, yes and yes! I think this is a brilliant suggestion. Why make the user think? They don't really need to know about all the things that are fine, just the show-stoppers as you rightly point out.

1) Yep, we (Kyle's UX team) are planning that
2) Already done in the new installer version (will be in alpha2 if all goes well)
3) Yeah, we can do that. I agree it is pretty useless...

Thanks @inspired, @nonumber.

Glad we are in agreement.

Great to hear that all three suggestions have been either taken on board or already done by the UX team.

Onwards and upwards!

UX team always know what his users want .
I think all users are happy to use UX team products .